A Quick Guide to Choosing Your K-pop Bias - For Dudes!

“Bias,” a term that is thrown around a lot in the K-pop blogosphere. But what does it actually mean and how does one go about selecting a bias? Since many readers found Lindsay’s “A Quick Guide to Choosing Your K-pop Bias” helpful, we’ve orchestrated a meticulously researched follow-up piece which was carefully crafted over the course of nearly a year.

The original piece was written almost exclusively from the point of view of a female fan seeking a male bias. This is simply because it happened to be the author’s area of expertise. But in the interest of gender equality, equal representation, and looking out for the other half, we present to you the same guide at no extra charge, this time from the perspective of a male fan seeking a female bias.

If you’re a heterosexual male, age twelve or older, who is into K-pop but is having trouble conforming to the age-old tradition of choosing a bias, we’ve broken down the process for you into three easy steps:

This guide is dedicated to guys gullible enough to think they need a guide to choose a bias (or dumb enough to think that they need to choose a bias at all). That’d be like women requiring a playbook to pick up guys.

Nah, Mark is only half right. While Choosing a bias is really that simple, he forgot the golden rule: You do not choose your bias, your bias chooses you.

How it really works:

1) Watch the video as many times as you want

2) FInd the girl that seems to keep drawing her eyes to herself. Even if she’s in a corner, it will be all you see.

3) Watch other videos for the same effect.

4) Job done

Dim Tso

I actually agree with this 100%. Your bias chooses you. You fall for her because her charm simply because it appeals to you more than the other girls’ charm.

Hey, a word to the OP: What’s the point of following the kpop scene without a bias? That’s like, the first thing you have to do when you get into kpop, or more accurately, the first thing that happens on its own, without you realizing it.

SB_Mark

On the contrary, I don’t get why people get into K-pop for a specific person or just a handful of people. That’s like going to a seafood buffet and only eating the sashimi. But I see what you mean about how many people are in this because of one or two biases. However, I don’t like it when people describe these relationships with their biases in a “couply” way because there should be a clear line drawn between being infatuated with an idol’s constructed image and the type of fulfilling relationship one can have with a real person. Food for thought!

Dim Tso

I didn’t mean that people are in kpop just because of a bias. What I was trying to say is that having a bias is part of following kpop. I’m pretty sure most people had a bias immediately the first time they were exposed to kpop.

Also, there’s nothing wrong with following only specific people, or specific groups in kpop. Just because I follow SNSD, doesn’t mean I should care about PSY.

Guest

This definitely made me laugh, nice one Mark lol . I don’t “choose” my biases, it just happens, it could be anything that sparks my interest in them. don’t go for these stereotypes, actually I don’t know what I’m going for, like i said, it just happens.

cqn0

I’ll save all the dudes trouble and give them the one step guide to finding their bias:

1. Sojin

You can thank me later.

SB_Mark

Hmm did not recall seeing her on the TC Chandler list. Who was #2 on that list again?

cqn0

TC Chandler doesn’t know shit about K-pop.

Nate Broadus

Yura is more my speed — at least when she sticks to her natural hair color.

tasialiu

Sometimes you may end up with more than one bias in a group so you may need to make a list. Sometimes the list changes so adjust accordingly.

sam_ihsan

Sera. Nuff said.

Viv

popped into this article for fun and was not expecting to see Sera’s name <3 ACTUAL ANGEL RYU SERA :')

Gaya_SB

Sorry HRH Sera’s taken by me, you’re all just going to have to find someone else

I agree with the comments, having a bias is something that happens naturally. But anyways, give me Miss A’s Jia and you guys can have every other female idols in kpop.

Pontifex

“FInd the girl that seems to keep drawing your eyes to herself. Even if she’s in a corner, it will be all you see.”

True.
I started watching all the 4Minute vids on YouTube over the last few
days trying to figure out why Hyun-A’s such a big deal. I realized that I
never noticed her at all when watching the same videos a year ago. On
the other hand, my eyes *always* gravitated to Ji-Yoon. I wasn’t looking
for a bias, it’s just that in “Volume Up” and ” I, My, Me, Mine” there
was one woman who kept catching my eye. Some of it was obviously her
looks, but since then I have realized that also I like that it seems
that she smiles more than the others, her voice and the exuberance
(and variety of attitude) in her dancing.

That she is considered “androgynous” I find ironic, but then I find Amber extremely attractive too.

GLaDdUS

If the process of discovering your bias is this easy for dudes, I’m gonna rage quit and go sulk in a corner….after I try this prescribed method. You know, for scientific reasons and such. ( < u <" )